Im having beers at bar ordered wings and tipped $2 everything the bartender brings me.

Beer = $6

tip for beer $2

wings = $20ish

Tip for wings from bartender = $2

Total tips = $4

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Same order from waitress/er = $26

Tip = $5.20

Now I know this is micro example but extrapolate this over several drinks with food and the difference swings the other way. The question remains tho, am I tipping correctly?

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    0·
    10 days ago

    I’m neither being a cheapskate nor acting like it’s a noble cause. Not sure what you read.

    • MyBrainHurts@lemmy.caEnglish
      02·
      10 days ago

      Not tipping for drinks, 5 or 10 on a meal for 3 or 4 is being cheap. (Even if you manage to all spend only 20 a person, 5 on an 80 bill is less than 10% and such a bad tip that depending on the establishment, it may have cost the server money to feed you.)

      I assumed you were justifying it with “pay your staff so they don’t need to rely on tips.”

      • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        Thinking a tip is owed for anything is being wildly presumptuous. Nobody is owed a tip, never mind a tip of an arbitrary value below which you describe people as cheap. Wise up.